Street-car advertising device.



No. 658,374. Patented Sept. 25, I900.

' J. N. JOHNSON.

STREET CAR ADVERTISING DEVHIEQ (Application filed. Oct. 24, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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JOHN NICHOLSON JOHNSON, OF PRESCOTT, ARIZONA TERRITORY.

,STREET-CAR ADVERTISING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 658,374, datedSeptember 25, 1900.

Application filed October 24, 1898.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN NICHOLSON JOHN- SON, a citizen of. the UnitedStates, and a resident of Prescott, in the county of Yavapai andTerritory of Arizona, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Street-Oar Advertising Devices, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to devices adapted to attracting the notice ofpeople to advertisements; and its object is to utilize the jolting ofvehicles, such as horse-cars, for the storage ofpowerthatwill atintervals set in m0- tion's'oinemechanical attraction.

The'object is attained by the means set forth in this specification andin the accompanying drawings.

Figure I is a front elevation of the mechanism, and Fig. II representsan end elevation of the same. Figs. III, IV, V, VI, VII, and IX aredetails of the several parts. Fig. VIII represents an application of thedevice for giving motion to a bicycle as an attraction to anadvertisement.

Reference will first be made to Figs. I and II, in which 19 q representweights, attached, respectively, to levers c d, which are secured in themanner of pendulums to fixed points it u by means of springs t i. Thelever d is provided with a connterbalancing-spring s, so that its normalposition would be in a horizontal plane, poised between the springs .9,Figs. I and II. The purpose of springs s is to ease and limit the rangeof vertical vibration of the lever. The lever c is likewise limit thehorizontal vibration of the lever. It is obvious that any violentjarring of the weights 1) q will cause them to vibrate, and by means ofpawls k on lever c and Z on lever 61 they will cause the turning of theratchettoothed wheel 6, which will be prevented from turning backward bythe fixed pawl m.

The wheel 6 is placed loosely on axle (See Fig. VI.) The reverse side ofwheel 6 is shown in Fig. IV. A toothed wheelf, Figs. II, III, and IV,and a disk It, Figs. II, V, and VI, are made fast to the axle i. Aspring n, Figs. II, III, and VI, is placed between the wheels 6 and f,the inner end being fast to the axle, as in Fig. III, and the outer end6 caught upon a pin 6, which is fast to wheel e, as in Serial No.694,394. (No model.)

Fig. VI. When the wheelfis held stationary and the wheel 6 is turned tothe right, the spring at will be wound up. When the axle t' is thusfurnished with wheelsfe and disk It and spring n, it is inserted in asuitable frame, as front plate a and plate 1), adapted in size and shapeto the mechanism it is to confine.

Adjacent to the axlet'is a rock-shaft 1', provided with two levers wand0, Fig. VII. The lever to extends to the edge of the disk h, wherearight-angulartnrn on the end engages with a notch in the disk. The notchand lever are shown as en aged in Fig. III and is disengaged in Fig. V.The other lever 0 extends to the side of the wheel 6, where it issubject to engagement with the pin 5, Fig. I. So long as the pin 5 andlever 0 are notin contact the lever 20 holds stationary the let-off di kIt and the wheel f. When the axle i and shaft r have their respectiveparts in position, the level to will find engagement with the notch inthe disk, the light spring U keep ng it so, and while the pawl m willprevent the wheel 6 turning backward said wheel may be turned forward,winding up the spring. IVhen the pin 5 in wheel 8 reaches the lever 0and depresses it, the lever to will be released from the notch in thedisk and the wound-up spring will cause the \vheelf to revolve. In orderto keep more or less constant tension on the spring'and to control'therevolutions of the disk h, pins 3 4, F lg. VI, are placed respectivelyon wheels fe, equal distances from the center of the axle and adapted'tomeet each other, so that the pin on wheel 6 serves as a stop to the pinon wheel f, thus limiting the wheelfto a single revolution each time itmay be released.

The wheel 6 is revolved by the impulses against its periphery of thepawls on the two levers, and at each revolution of wheel e wheel f willbe released and make one revolution. As a means of utilizing thisstorage of power I will now describe the additional features of thedevice shown. A pinion f, Figs. I and III, is fixed on a spindlej, andthis spindle is carried to the front of the plate a, Figs. II and VIII.Upon this plate is mounted a miniature bicycle by a bracket 13, Figs.VIII. The spindle j is made a part of or is attached to the crank-axleof the bicycle, and behind the sprocket-wheel I attach a small roundbelt-pulleylO, Fig.1X. Then a small beltpulley 12, Fig. IX, is attachedto the axle of the front bicycle-wheel, and the two pulleys areconnected by means of a small belt 11, Figs. IX and VIII. Now it will beapparent that at. each revolution of the wheel f, through the pinion fand parts described, the bicycle will be put in motion and will socontinue during the revolution of the wheel f.

If this device be mounted in a suitable case, as in Fig. VIII, havingthe bicycle as the central feature of a sign, the intermittent runningof the bicycle Without any visible means of propulsion will become anobject of interest. By placing the case thus prepared in a street-car orany vehicle subject to jerking movements the bicycle will be keptrunning, with intervals of remaining stationary hardly longer than theintervals required for rewindmg.

The form and arrangements of the parts herein shown are susceptible ofmany modi-' fications, and the principle is adapted for largerapplications, so that I do not wish to be confined to the specific formsor applications herein shown so long as in the embodiment of theinvention I adhere to its principles.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a device of the character described and in combination, aspring-winding mechanism, a jolt-vibrated lever mounted in verticalrelation thereto, a second jolt-vibrated lever mounted in horizontalrelation thereto, and means between the said levers and the windingmechanism whereby both the upward and longitudinal jolts or vibrationsof the vehicle areutilized to wind up the spring, substantially asdescribed.

2. In a device of the character described and in combination, thenotched disk h fast to the shaft i, lever-arm w fast to rock-shaft r andadapted to cooperate with the notched disk, lever-arm 0 fast. to saidshaft 1', the wheel (2 loose upon the shaft '11, having a trippingpinthereon, the lever-arm 0 being adapted to cooperate with the said pin,and a spring '0 surrounding the shaft?" and constructed and tially asdescribed.

arranged to uphold the lever-arms substan- 3. The combination with thedevice for utilizing the vibration of vehicles for the storage of powerin the mannerdescribed, the pinion f on shaftj engaging with the wheelf,shaft j attached to the axle of a miniature bicycle, said bicyclebeing attached to the frame'of the device, and a belt and pulleys forimparting movement to the rear bicycle-wheel, substantially as hereinshown and described.

Signed at Prescott, in the county of Yavapai and Territory of Arizona,this 18th day of June, A. D. 1898.

. JOHN NICHOLSON JOHNSON. Witnesses:

WARREN E. DAY, I W. W. Ross, H. S. LATHAM.

